Re: DOS/Windows-specific code: sh-tdep.c and sh3-rom.c

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > 
 > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Kevin Buettner wrote:
 > 
 > > >     #ifdef _WINDOWS
 > > >       /* On windows we can talk through the parallel port too. */
 > > > 	"Debug on a Hitachi eval board running the SH-3 rom monitor.\n"
 > > > 	"Specify the serial device it is connected to (e.g. com2).\n"
 > > > 	"If you want to use the parallel port to download to it, specify that\n"
 > > > 	"as the second argument. (e.g. lpt1)";
 > > >     #else
 > > > 	"Debug on a Hitachi eval board running the SH-3 rom monitor.\n\
 > > >     Specify the serial device it is connected to (e.g. /dev/ttya).";
 > > >     #endif
 > > > 
 > > > It should be good enough to have a single string here which would tell
 > > > that parallel port is only available on Windows.
 > > 
 > > Perhaps, but it seems to me that the examples provided in the
 > > different help texts are actually useful.
 > 
 > I thought about retaining both examples.  For example:
 > 
 >  	"Debug on a Hitachi eval board running the SH-3 rom monitor.\n"
 >  	"Specify the serial device it is connected to\n"
 >         "(e.g., /dev/tty on Unix or com2 on Windows).\n"
 >  	"On Windows only, you can use the parallel port to download to it,\n" 
 >         "in which case specify that as the second argument (e.g., lpt1)."
 > 

Yes, that was my understanding as well. This is Ok with me. I am going
to make the change today.

Thanks
Elena